The Power of Play
Working vacation.
After 10 Years of Funding, the Curtain Falls
What $22 million in Annenberg fellowships accomplished in 10 years.
Snack Brigade
“Healthy deliciousness” from high-school students and Netter Center.
Beyond the Border Wall
Walls and doors: examining immigration’s past and future.
Shakespeare’s Secret Helper
Big data and the Bard: what’s in a the, or and, or with, or or?
Moonshot in Mid-Flight
At Silfen Forum, Biden calls for more cooperation to fight cancer.
Preservation and the Public Good
False choice? Historic preservation and the public good.
President’s Prizes
In latest President’s Prizes, four student groups get $100,000 each.
Hoop Dreams Deferred
Exciting finishes in women’s and men’s basketball.
Scoreboard
From Feb. 6 to April 4, 2017
Peter Struck’s Odyssey
The classical studies professor—whose scholarship traces how intellectual concepts and literary works were received and interpreted in ancient Greece and Rome—is an ardent champion of the continued vitality and relevance of liberal arts education in our own time.
Taking the Performing Arts to the Next Level
The Annenberg Center’s new director Christopher Gruits.
The Serene Strategist
To her mother, alumna Alice Paul was a “mild-mannered girl”; another observer compared her demeanor to “the quiet of a spinning top.” Her leadership in the fight to get US women the vote was a remarkable mix of unyielding commitment and savvy politics.
March|April 2017
Volume 115, No. 4
Witness to a Demolition
Elaine Simon’s photographs “capture the stages of demolition as a way to remember the site and make a statement about cycles of destruction, displacement, and development.”
Letters
March|April 2017: Trump (non)coverage, sanctuary campus pro and con, and more.
Events
March|April 2017
Alumni Notes
March|April 2017
Obituaries
March|April 2017
Showing Their Animal Magnetism
Penn alumni star in Animal Planet’s Life at Vet U.
Skimming for Substance
Carly Zakin C’08 is co-founder of theSkimm.
Beyond Granola
Notes from my backcountry recipe book.
Adaptation
The long and winding road from manuscript to silver screen.
Don Paco’s Hard Cider
An apple a day, Asturias-style.